I just installed Vector 5.8 standard and I have the above problems. gslapt saying that xfce is not installed and, among other things, slapt-get --upgrade says it can't install new xfce because of missing deps. I added the cd as source for packages, it didn't fix anything. Is slapt-get rather broken or somebody removed important packages from the ftp or what ? It's true that I selected not to install a lot of the optional stuff but still shouldn't slapt-get be able to get what it needs ?

Damn- just saw that one of the things it says it is needed glib2 >= 2.12.10 is not on the ftp at all. Same thing with gtk2. Is there another source I need to add or is 5.8 standard no longer supported or something ?

I've never tried a --upgrade, seeing as I'm a micro-management freak, but I thought it was only supposed to upgrade the instaled packages, not add new ones. Maybe one of these newer versions has bad dependency info in the package?

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O'Neill (RE the Asgard): "Usually they ask nicely before they ignore us and do what they damn well please."http://joe1962.bigbox.infoRunning: VL 7 Std 64 + self-cooked XFCE-4.10

I've never tried a --upgrade, seeing as I'm a micro-management freak, but I thought it was only supposed to upgrade the instaled packages, not add new ones. Maybe one of these newer versions has bad dependency info in the package?

I think I narrowed the problem down to gksu- looks like that's what was compiled with gnome support for some reason, that or one of gksu's deps. And I found another problem- the xarchiver package installed was named Xarchiver while the new one was xarchiver, I had to remove the old one myself before upgrade.

Damn. After upgrading xfce I can at most get minimized applications icons on desktop. How do I get my desktop back ? And that speakers applet for sound on the taskbar is gone too, I think there may have been another one as well for clipboard maybe also gone (actually from screenshots I think it was calendar). Yeahin the menu Mixer settings doesn't work either- says no such plugin sound.

Alright, I decided it was probably too broken so I installed the 5.9 beta2. I miss the link on the taskbar to the system section in 5.8. Anybody got an idea how to change the keymap in xfce ? The xorg.conf setting doesn't work. Configuring it in kcontrol did work, but this is on xfce.EDIT: It seems there's no romanian quertz keymap installed...

some packages that you install using gslapt/slapt-get require some other packages that only avaiable in the testing repository......actaully it is not risky to enable the testing repository as long as you know what packages you are trying to install or upgrade

It really shouldn't for 5.8, as long as you stick to the patches repo. I think a newer gksu package slipped through the packages "quality control", something we had avoided building before because they went full-gnome after the version released on the iso.

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O'Neill (RE the Asgard): "Usually they ask nicely before they ignore us and do what they damn well please."http://joe1962.bigbox.infoRunning: VL 7 Std 64 + self-cooked XFCE-4.10